Category Archives: Ripley’s Weird News
Gateways To Hell Part I
Featured in Ripley's Believe It or Not! Caves. Dorm rooms. A honky tonk. A volcano. They've all been called-at one time or another-a gateway to Hell. Why? Sometimes it's because people have seen ...
Jul 06, 2018
This Parasitic Wasp Was Named After The Xenomorph
Featured in Ripley's Believe It or Not! This Week [July 1-7th, 2018] Driving burning cars, an allowance wage gap, a test board fails its own test, and a species of wasp named after aliens. Chatty...
Jul 06, 2018
Idaho Relocated Beavers By Parachuting Them From Planes
Featured in Ripley's Believe It or Not! Chew on This I've thought long and hard about exactly how to say this delicately, but I haven't come up with anything, so I'm just going to say it. A gover...
Jul 06, 2018
LOOK BEFORE YOU LEAP: The 100 Year History Of Stuntworkers
Featured in Ripley's Believe It or Not! Kyle Weishaar is ready to jump out of a helicopter. The 34-year-old is more than 70 feet in the air, waiting for his cue, as he has been asked to hurl hims...
Jul 06, 2018
Could Alligators Survive In The Sewers Of New York City?
Featured in Ripley's Believe It or Not! Sewer Gators Originally stemming all the way back to the 1930s, but really taking hold of the collective imagination of Americans in the 1950s, stories hav...
Jul 05, 2018
4th of July Unboxing Extravaganza!
Featured in Ripley's Believe It or Not! In This Episode Fire up the grill-it's 4th of July weekend! From a massive scrap metal eagle to Mike Drummond's miniature Statue of Liberty carved into a t...
Jul 04, 2018
The Daredevil Magician: Harry Houdini
Featured in Ripley's Believe It or Not! Harry Houdini A child immigrant from Hungary, the man who would become known as Harry Houdini got his start in the entertainment world in 1891 traveling wi...
Jul 04, 2018
Radball is an Official Sport: Soccer Played on Bicycles
Featured in Ripley's Believe It or Not! It is estimated that more Americans are watching the FIFA World Cup than ever! But What If You Played Soccer On Bikes? Then you'd be playing Radball. The f...
Jul 03, 2018
Cannibal Fork From The Fiji Islands
Featured in Ripley's Believe It or Not! Cannibal Fork When European explorers landed in the Fiji Islands in the late 18th century, they were astounded by the brutality and widespread practice of ...
Jul 03, 2018
Burning Ballet Dancers Of The 19th Century: Tragic Tale Or Sinister Conspiracy?
Featured in Ripley's Believe It or Not! The Burning Ballet Ballet dancers are often considered to suffer more for their art than any other individuals of artistic practice. However, in the mid to...
Jul 02, 2018
